Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prison shop were a three-wheel gocart, a motorcycle engine, a rear rotor blade-in short, more or less everything needed to build a helicopter except the main overhead blade. The criminal masterminds were a welder, a plumber and an electrician serving long sentences in maximum security. Warden George Sumner contends that the plot would never have flown anyway: "If they had tried to take off, they were right in front of Tower One here, and they would've been shot down...
...light of past disputes like 7 Sumner Rd though, the settlement is a big victory for the tenants, who didn't move from the building despite the uncertain climate and who stayed united in their dealings with the University...
...even more than the result, the process used to clear out the tenants marked a startling change. In the case of 7 Sumner Rd.--and in other cases before it--the University eschewed negotiation and compromise, preferring to use its legal and administrative resources to fight a battle to the finish...
...efforts of the newly formed Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) may have been equally as important in forcing the compromise. The HTU wasn't around when the Sumner Rd battle was at its height: its leadership kept public pressure on the University throughout the Mt. Auburn St. dispute, however...
...mixed blessing, however, is far more than tenants have won from the University in the past. If nothing else, the men and women who used to live at 7 Sumner Rd, would be amazed...